The Supreme Court has denied an application by David Stewart to compel the National Commercial Bank to remove the freeze on his company’s current account because of allegations that it felt insecure with respect to the business. In his claim,...
A concerned citizen has complained that he was chased away when he went to a police station in the Corporate Area on Monday afternoon to report that a 10-year-old child was left unsupervised at home on several occasions. “I thought I was doing a...
Cynthia Brivit is breathing a sigh of relief after two paraplegic brothers she cares for in Clifton, St Catherine, have been diagnosed with a hereditary condition and are set to start receiving treatment shortly. Days after being featured in a...
Farmer Andrew Martin, of Coolshade district near Linstead, St Catherine, was excited and grateful yesterday when representatives from Hi-Pro Chicks, a division of Jamaica Broilers Group, turned up at his home with 100 chickens, bags of feed,...
Farmer Andrew Martin of Coolshade district near Linstead, St Catherine, has fallen on hard times since he lost two of his toes to diabetes. He says he used to plant cassava, plantain and banana to make a living but, because of his illness, he...
Rutair Limited, which operates an air transport business, is seeking an order from the Judicial Review Court to quash a June 2018 decision, by then Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague, appointing Christopher Raleigh Bickford as the...
Almost a decade after Jamaica made legal history with the passage of the Administrator General’s (Amendment) Act of 2015, the benefits of the changes are now being felt. The amendments put the government in a position to earn tens of millions of...
A St Andrew vendor, who spent almost four months in custody before he was freed last week of a robbery charge, is making a special plea to the police “not to tell lies” on innocent persons. Kimani Pusey, 43, is also imploring the police to...
Prominent attorney-at-law Arnaldo Brown is challenging a Supreme Court ruling which found he had a good prospect of winning a lawsuit filed against him but refused to grant his application to set aside a default judgment because of a three-year-...
The conditions under which a newborn baby and her parents are living are so deplorable that some residents of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew this week threatened to call a government agency to intervene in the situation. Mario Wallace, founder of non...
Paula Llewellyn, the long-standing director of public prosecutions (DPP), has decided to “step aside” in wake of the controversy over the various interpretations of Friday’s Constitutional Court ruling on the validity of her extended tenure. With...
The Real Estate Board has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to conduct a hearing for a real estate salesman whose application was rejected in December 2020 because he has three previous convictions. Michael Reid, the applicant, had pursued a real...
A security guard who was sentenced seven years ago to a total of eight months’ imprisonment for shooting and wounding a customer has lost his appeal against his convictions and sentences. The shooting incident took place at the office of the...
One month after the Supreme Court dismissed the claim brought against him by Jamaica College (JC) acting Principal Wayne Robinson, former JC Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA) President Major Basil Jarrett is defending another lawsuit filed by Robinson...
The Jamaica Association of Composers Authors and Publishers (JACAP) will not be compensated for the millions of dollars being sought from Restaurants of Jamaica, trading as KFC, for alleged infringement of copyright. Last week, the Court of Appeal...
THE FIRST person whose sentence was challenged by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) because he did not receive the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment under the 2022 Amendment to the Firearms Act is to face a retrial. He is...
THE INDUSTRIAL Disputes Tribunal has ruled that B. D. Dadlani (Jamaica) Limited is to reinstate Raj Kumar Khurana to his post as chief financial officer by March 18 and pay him US$74,000 because he was unjustifiably terminated. Failure to reinstate...
THE COURT of Appeal has ruled that, because of the prevalence of gun crimes in Jamaica, 15 years’ imprisonment at hard labour, imposed on the getaway driver in a robbery, was not manifestly excessive or unreasonable. Appellant 44-year-old Germaine...
TWO MEN, one of whom had his DNA samples forcibly taken from him when a policeman handcuffed him after he was arrested, have lost their claim in the Full Court to get declarations for alleged constitutional breaches under the DNA Evidence Act. “In...
The mother of 19-year-old police trainee Rayandre Pike, who drowned in July last year while trying to rescue his colleague, says no senior officer from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has reached out to her since the incident. “All I get is...
There is a legal firestorm brewing over the director of public prosecutions’ (DPP) withdrawal of a case last month from a judge who was about to sentence a man who had pleaded guilty to rape and grievous sexual assault. DPP Paula Llewellyn has been...
The Court of Appeal has issued a stern reminder for Family Court judges to bear in mind that they and the courts over which they preside are creatures of statute. “Making orders in excess of the powers conferred on them by relevant laws and rules (...
The four executives of Symbiote Investments Limited – trading as CariCel – who were freed in June last year of alleged breaches of the Telecommunications Act, have filed an application to strike out an appeal by the director of public prosecutions...
The Court of Appeal has emphasised that the only reason it granted an extension of time to an applicant who waited for two and a half years to take steps to initiate an appeal against a Supreme Court ruling was because he had a good case. Anthony...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is expressing fear that the acute shortage of court reporters to take verbatim notes and prepare transcripts of proceedings in the circuit courts is going to cause a negative and toxic effect...
